Another Burmese MP U Kyaw Min( Buthidaung) detained while U Kyaw San staging hunger strike

March 18, 2005 (DVB)

U Kyaw Min, a member of Committee for Representing People’s Parliament (CRPP) was arrested at his Rangoon home by the authorities of Burma’s military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) on 17 March.
A CRPP member told DVB that special police agents came to his home around midnight and told him to follow them for some “questions”. But it is still not known why he was arrested and where he is being detained.
52-year old U Kyaw Min is the elected representative (MP) of No.1, Constituency, Buthidaung, Arakan State, and a working member of Human Rights and Democracy Party.

Meanwhile, Sagaing Division National League for Democracy (NLD) chairman U Kyaw San who was arrested on the same day at his Rangoon home, is staging a hunger strike, according to his wife, Daw May Nwet.
“When I went to see him this morning, he told me that he has not been eating since yesterday evening. Don’t come and give me food, he was shouting like that. I heard that but did not see him. He is being detained at Insein Police Station,” she told DVB

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